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news filter pages, although similar categories will be used to group blog posts. The old pages will remain available as a historical record. The new
blog approach also makes it possible to easily host short articles with a comment facility, such as requests for public feedback.

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Tests on this page seek to determine whether a user agent can handle an International Resource Identifier (IRI) in a link or
address bar. This page is encoded in Shift-JIS, but the link points to a resource whose filename is encoded in UTF-8. [search key: sec-iri-3]

Most of the Internationalization tests at http://www.w3.org/International/tests/ have been improved in the light of lessons learned over
recent months. Changes include the addition of explanatory information at the beginning of each test page that describes what is being tested and
provides useful notes. Presentation has been standardized and improved. There have also been a small number of changes made to existing test pages,
and a small number of new tests have been added. Finally, links to the results pages have been added to the test overview page.

This is one of a set of pages that examine how inline bidirectional text is handled by a user agent.

Tests on this page seek to determine whether directionality set in the document is carried through to window title and tooltip
display. The tester should check two things: whether the letters in a single word run in the right direction (this checks the application of the
bidirectional algorithm, using character directional semantics); and whether the words are in the appropriate order (this checks the application of
directional context set by the dir attribute). [search key: sec-inline-bidi]

This test seeks to establish whether a user agent supports use of the hreflang attribute plus CSS to display information about the
language of a link target. It does not test whether the hreflang value is used when viewing the target document.

The Internationalization Activity welcomes the participation of individuals and organizations around the world to help improve the
appropriateness of the Web for multiple cultures, scripts and languages.